To provide a comprehensive and consolidated view of your Audiences and make audience management and optimization simpler, you’ll find the following improvements in Google Ads:
- New audience reporting
Detailed reporting about audience demographics, segments, and exclusions is now consolidated in one place, the “Audiences” tab within the left page navigation menu. You can also easily manage your Audiences from this report page. Learn more about Audience reporting - New terms
We’re using new terms on your audience report and throughout Google Ads. For example, “audience types” (these include similar, custom, in-market, and affinity) are now referred to as audience segments and “remarketing” is now referred to as “your data”. Learn more about the updates to Audience terms and phrases
Audience manager is the home of Audience segments, Audience sources, and Audience insights. It can help you manage and create new audience segments and sources.
This article explains the benefits of Audience manager and how it works. For setup instructions, see About your data setup.
Benefits
- Set up, manage, and monitor your Audience sources, such as the global site tag, an App analytics provider, or a YouTube channel.
- Create new segments based on the Audience sources you've set up.
- Learn more about the people who make up your data segments, such as their demographics, interests, locations, and devices.
How Audience manager works
To find the Audience manager, click the tools icon in the top right corner of your screen and look under "Shared library." Within the page menu of Audience manager you'll find 3 sections: Audience sources, Audience segments, and Audience insights.
Audience sources
Audience manager starts with you adding sources of first-party data into Audience sources. Based on these Audience sources you can create segments comprised of your data. You can add the following audience sources:
- Global site tag: Collect data from your website to advertise to people who visited your website. You can set up granular user attributes used for personalized creatives.
- Google Analytics: Import audience segments built in Google Analytics to reach them with Google Ads. You can set up granular user attributes used for personalized creatives.
- YouTube: Advertise to people who have seen your channel, track what people do after watching video ads, and drive clicks with call-to-action overlays.
- Google Play: Create your data segments based on current app users and in-app purchasers.
- App analytics: Link a third-party app analytics provider (including Firebase) or your own software development kit (SDK) to your account to advertise to people who use your app.
- Customer data: Upload customer contact information to show ads to your customers while they browse across Google's properties like Google Search, YouTube, or Gmail.
Your data segments
Audience segments is where you create new segments comprised of your data based on the Audience sources you’ve added. You can also view any previously created segments. The Audience segments table helps you manage your data segments by searching, sorting, filtering, applying labels, deleting, and grouping segments.
Audience insights
Audience insights use Google's network data to help you understand more about your audience segments and recognize key patterns and opportunities. It breaks down segments comprised of your data by affinity categories, in-market categories, age, gender, geography, devices, and more. This tool provides insights that can be translated into practical campaign decisions to attract new people or optimize creatives. Learn more about Audience insights